According to official statistics, the number of CPC members has been soaring since the 1990s, with an annual increase of more than 2 million new members. So far, the overall number of CPC members has surpassed 8.6 million, which makes the CPC undoubtedly the largest political party in the world.

This gives rise to a series of brand-new challenges: how to manage this colossal team of CPC members, how to improve the structure of this team, how to maintain reasonable size of party branches at different levels, how to stimulate Party members to set a better, pioneering model, and how to build a dynamic exit mechanism for Party membership.

This July 1 marks the 93th anniversary of the founding of the CPC. Recently the central authorities issued detailed rules for recruiting new CPC members, which provides a "top design" for improving the quality and structure of the Party and revamping the procedures of enlisting new CPC members.

Hopefully under the guidance of this latest document, more stringent standards of Party member admission and management can be established and applied at various levels of the Party.

Internationally, there is a common agreement among political parties that enjoy a long tenure in office: the quality of party membership has to be constantly boosted.

In recent years, Vladimir Putin has called on cleansing United Russia, the country's largest and ruling party, to get rid of mercenary opportunists, fight bureaucracy within the party, and maintain the party's leading position.

In Singapore, the People's Action Party has ruled for more than 50 years since it took office in 1959. Besides stable achievements in economic and social growth, the party also pays great attention to its internal personnel construction, which is a key foundation for its long-term stable rule. It is a fact that some young students adopt an opportunist attitude when joining the CPC. The group of student Party members has expanded in a too fast a manner, and the standards of recruitment are not strict enough.

Young students are in the middle of the shaping of their worldviews, and they haven't really gone through any severe challenges. Therefore, the recruitment standards set for them should not be too loose.

Meanwhile, in the circumstances of informationization and rapid social mobility, creativity is needed in activities held by grass-roots Party organizations, so as to make grass-roots Party services more efficient and flexible.

We should be cautious of those who join the Party in name but not in mind. Exit mechanisms have to be built and implemented in time, so as to ensure the vigor and health of the organization.

Outstanding members, who are the pillar forces of the Party in realizing the Chinese dream, should be given a bigger role.

The author is director of the Institute of Information Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and chief editor of Social Sciences Abroad. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn